Soap-suspender.



No. 684,033. P-atentd Oct. 8, [90L 0. H. ALLEN. SOAP SUSPENDER.

(Application filed July 27, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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DAVID H. ALLEN, OF MIAMISBURG, OHIO.

SOAP-SUSPENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 684,033, datedOCtOlOBI' 8, 1901.

Application filed J'nly 2'7, 1900. Serial No. 25,059. (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID H. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Miamisburg, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap-Suspenders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a means for conveniently andsafely holding a to cake of soap in proximity to a washbowl of astandard washstand for hotels, public washrooms, or otherwise to preventits being carried away, Wasted by abuse, or misplaced.

The features of my invention are more fully set forth in the descriptionof the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, inwhich- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention, illustrating it assecured to a stationary 2o washstand. Fig. 2 is a central verticalsection of the soap-holding device.

A represents a stationary washstand having a bowl B.

0 represents a standard attached to the 2 5 washstand at the rear of thebowl, having a 0 outer end of this gooseneck is suspended a chain G, tothe free endof which is attached the cake of soap H. I have devised aparticular means for properly holding this soap on a chain, which formsthe subject-matter of a separate application filed of an even dateherewith.

In the center of the standard is a bolt I, tapping through the bottom ofthe washstand interiorly into the standard. To the upper o end of thisbolt is attached a coil-spring J, or

it may be secured to the base of the standard, the other end of saidspring being secured to a pin 1) on the journal-socket E, as shown inFig. 2. The journal-ball D has a slot 0 at its upper end, through whichthe pin 1) slides and which limits the movement of the journal-socket E.This spring is attached in such a manner that its normal tendency is tohold it in either the vertical po- 50 sition shown in Fig. 1 or thehorizontal position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1. When it is desired touse the soap, the arm F is pulled into the horizontal position indicatedin dotted lin es,Fig. 1. The upper end of the spring will travel withthe movement of the socket on the ball, so that when the lever is pastthe dead center the spring will automatically strain the lever to itshorizontal position over the bowl, and when the user is through with thesoap an upward push will return the arm to the vertical position,lifting the soap out of the bowl into a position of safety above thestand. When the eye 17 engages one wall of the slot 0, it will act asastop to determine the vertical position of the lever, and when the eyeengages the other wall of the slot it will act as a stop to determinethe horizontal position of the lever. Of course various forms of stopscould be devised to perform the same function.

It is evident that many forms of leverage, horizontal or vertical, orvarious arrange ments of the same thing differing in detail from theform shown and described could be employed without departing from thespirit of the invention.

Having described my invention, I claim-= 1. In combination with awashstand, a standard arranged adjacent to the washbowl, a leverfulcrumed thereon normally above said washbowl and adapted to be bentand held horizontally over said bowl, and a chain supporting a bar ofsoap attached to the outer end of said lever, substantially asdescribed.

2. In combination with a washstand, a standard, a lever fulcrumedthereto normally held with its free end away from the washbowl, a chainattached to the said free end of the lover, a cake of soap attached tothe other end of the chain, and means for swinging the lever over thebowl, substantially as specificd.

3. Incombination with a washstand, a standard arranged adjacent to thewashbowl, a lever fulcrumed to said standard, a chain supporting a cakeof soap suspended from the outer end of said lever, the said lever beingnormally at one side of the .bowl and mov able to a horizontal positionover the same,- and a spring adapted to strain said lever toward the.extreme ends of its movement to and from said bowl, substantially asdescribed.

4. In combination with a washstand, a

standard arranged adjacent to the wnshbowl, mine the limits of movementof said lever IO 2L lever fulcrumed to said standard, a chainsubstantially as described.

supporting a cake of soap suspended from In testimony whereof I havehereunto set the outer end of said lever, said lever being my hand.normally at one side of the bowl, and mov- DAVID IL ALLEN able to ahorizontal position over the same, a

spring adapted to strain said lever toward \Vitnesses:

the extreme ends of its movement to and OLIVER B. RAISER, from saidbowl, and stops adapted to deter- O. LOVELL BUTLER.

